Introduction: Chinese cinemas as new media

Abstract

This essay surveys current scholarly literature on the inter-relation between new media and Chinese cinemas, mapping out three major areas of study: special effects in martial arts cinema; new media cultures and their representation on film; the development of digital production and the emergence of various forms of micro-cinemas. It introduces readers to new works that approach recent films from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore as a form of new media, underscoring the inextricability between cinema and the new media that are transforming its fundamental parameters.